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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 36
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Various kings rule in Judah—Nebuchadnezzar overruns Judah and makes Zedekiah king—Zedekiah rebels, the people reject the prophets, and Chaldees burn the temple and destroy Jerusalem—Cyrus of Persia decrees the building of the temple.
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Then</span> the people of the land took <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 30 (28-30).">Jehoahaz</a> the son of Josiah, and made him <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 3.">king</a> in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.
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Jehoahaz <i>was</i> twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
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And the king of Egypt <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR deposed him.">put</a> him down at Jerusalem, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/3b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB fined.">condemned</a> the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
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And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim.  And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 4.">Egypt</a>.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 34 (34, 36).">Jehoiakim</a> <i>was</i> twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God.
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Against him came up <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 1 (1-16); Dan. 1: 1 (1-2).">Nebuchadnezzar</a> king of Babylon, and bound him in <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 9.">fetters</a>, to carry him to Babylon.
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Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 13.">vessels</a> of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
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Now the rest of the acts of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 5.">Jehoiakim</a>, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they <i>are</i> written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/8b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR Jeconiah; 1 Chr. 3: 16; OR Coniah; Jer. 22: 24.">Jehoiachin</a> his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; Jehoiachin <i>was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/9a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR eighteen; 2 Kgs. 24: 8, 15.">eight</a> years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did <i>that which was </i>evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Babylon</a>, with the goodly vessels of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and made <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 17; Jer. 52: 1 (1-2); 1 Ne. 1: 4; Omni 1: 15.">Zedekiah</a> his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 37: 1.">Zedekiah</a> <i>was</i> one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 21: 25.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God, <i>and</i> humbled not himself before <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 1 (1-7).">Jeremiah</a> the prophet <i>speaking</i> from the mouth of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he also <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 20; Jer. 52: 3; Ezek. 17: 15.">rebelled</a> against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 17: 13.">swear</a> by God: but he <sup>c</sup><a href="2_chr/36/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Stiffneckedness.">stiffened</a> his neck, and <sup>d</sup><a href="2_chr/36/13d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">hardened</a> his heart from turning unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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&#182; Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 1: 13 (13, 19).">abominations</a> of the heathen; and polluted the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of their fathers <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 4 (4-5); D&C 133: 71.">sent</a> to them by his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/15b" mark="b" type="C" title="1 Ne. 1: 4 (4, 18); TG Prophets, Mission of.">messengers</a>, rising up <sup>c</sup><a href="2_chr/36/15c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB early, promptly.">betimes</a>, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
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But they <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/16a" mark="a" type="C" title="Dan. 9: 6; TG Apostasy of Israel; TG Mocking; TG Persecution; TG Prophets, Rejection of.">mocked</a> the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 13: 24 (24-30).">prophets</a>, until the wrath of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> arose against his people, till <i>there was</i> no remedy.
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Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 21.">slew</a> their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave <i>them</i> all into his hand.
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And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all <i>these </i>he brought to Babylon.
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And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">Jerusalem</a>, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
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And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/20a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ezek. 19: 12; TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Babylon</a>; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
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To fulfil the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: <i>for</i> as long as she lay desolate she kept <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sabbatical Year.">sabbath</a>, to fulfil <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/36/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 12; Dan. 9: 2.">threescore</a> and ten years.
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&#182; Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>spoken</i> by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and <i>put it</i> also in writing, saying,
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Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/36/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 1: 2 (1-3); Isa. 44: 28.">house</a> in Jerusalem, which <i>is</i> in Judah.  Who <i>is there</i> among you of all his people?  The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God <i>be</i> with him, and let him go up.
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